OFF FOR HOME.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 285, 2 December 1938, Page 10

OFF FOR HOME.

ACHILLES LEAVES.

WISTFUL SMILES.

SCENE AT NAVAL BASE.

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i ytiofl vrn 11■> fi>r cheer*. There in a ''uMot of hundkorchiefs, and thn ship ' him up a (loul)lo string of signal flag*.

Tlio oflirern, marine* und rating* are li.iwn up to uttontion, but oven <lihI'liiki tui.'* when 11 sailor is saying : nil l>yu to lii« girl, perhaps for ever, 'I bait' a do/nil wave. Tne tension

1 l»* n < tlu» ship call* for cheers, and IM again in response to the farewell I "111 the. company of H.M.S. Philomel.

And n>, with her pennant trailing xtnrn, the Achillea steams with gatherng speed down the harbour, Mcorted ■y (i bevy of small craft.